jon: a major showdown is brewing in washington as the:0 clock particulars on the passive spending cuts. $2.2billion in broad cuts begin on march 1st. presidential obama said during the third presidential debate, he didn't think those cuts would ever take place. >> first of all the sequester is not something that i proposed, it's something that congress proposed. it will not happen. jon: let's talk about it with rich hrour raoet editor of the national review and a fox news contributor. i called them massive cuts. in some ways they might be viewed that way, but in some ways maybe not. >> if you look at the bulge he will globally these drops are a drop in the bucket. over ten years they would be 3%, talk nothing theory about $85 billion a year and a 3.5 threul trillion dollar budget. according to the congressional budget office, because it takes time for the government to tkofrg it only cuts about 42 billion this year, 1.5% of the gougette. this should be doable in a rational way, but the sequester itself was designed to be as irrational and painful to all sides as possible. jon: you say